New Balcones Canyonlands visitor center in Grandview is 3+ years from opening  

A new visitor center at the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve in Grandview Hills off Wilson Parke and RM620 is still about three to four years away from opening to the public, but the plans for construction, engineering and permitting are underway.Rendering courtesy of the BCCP Coordinating Committee.

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The Reserve at Lake Austin and Carol Lee Garden host ribbon cuttings

On May 23, the Carol Lee Memory Garden was dedicated with a ribbon cutting ceremony. L-R: Susan Kimbrough, Kirstin Coon, Kurt Cadena-Mitchell, Runi Duval, Linda Bailey, Council Member Alison Alter, Jonathan Coon, Peter Sawyer, Marisa Lipscher and Bill Moore.
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Head-first into the Shark Tank: The INCubator program

A Vandegrift ACCELerator team – second from left Vincent Cuthbert, Alex Mokhov, and Christian Long – won first place at the Texas High School Ideas Challenge on May 2. The team was awarded $2,500 for their company Slap Daddy Koozies. A total of 40 finalist teams – comprised of more than 100 students from 26 high schools in 14 Texas cities – were selected as finalists and invited to compete in person at Texas A&M’s McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship. Blake Petty is the center’s executive director on the far left.

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